To create a structured story, Silpperjack used the weather to portray the time of day relevant to the story. To begin with, in Coal Oil, Crayons and Schoolbooks Silpperjack expresses the weather at the beginning of the day to have the following characteristics, “…cold, damp air.. white mist all around me.” (Slipperjack 27). When one awakes in the morning, the air does feel denser and colder. Slipperjack illustrates the weather in such to generate a morning feel because it is the beginning of the day. This creates a mysterious mood which is ironic because them mood later in the passage is humorous. In Blueberry Days, for the beginning period of the story, Slipperjack states, “I breathe in the fresh air and hold my face to the warm sun. The
